Valum is awesome, and I was considering it for a while but we have decided to use Elixir/Phoenix for our web backends (for obvious reasons if you are designing a soft-realtime software).
But I keep it in mind and I won't be suprised if it would have been used in some of our microservices later on. Marcin 2016-06-15 22:30 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Poirier-Morency < guillaumepoiriermore...@gmail.com>: > I just want to state that I'm in perfect agreement with you Marcin. > > Rust might be a good system programming language, but it's clearly not > ready for the needs of a product like RadioKit. > > Vala is a good language with incredible C binding capabilities and > really nice set of semantics. It has direct access to GTK and > GStreamer, unlike what you would have with GIR and pose reasonable > overhead over GObject C. > > Rewritting a working codebase because of a language hype is silly, > especially as it would result in a considerably lower utility. > > Yet, Rust is a really nice language with a bright future and I think it > should inpire us putting some efforts on making Vala safer. > > Suit yourself, > > N.B. RadioKit looks really amazing and I really wish I could be part of > it, but obligations forbids. Maybe Valum could be handy? > > Le mercredi 15 juin 2016 à 22:03 +0200, mar...@saepia.net a écrit : > > I don't say Rust is wrong. I don't even say it's worse than Vala or > > less > > promising. There are just much more popular languages than Rust that > > fail > > to maintain stable bindings to C libraries, including one I am > > interested > > of the most (GStreamer). > > > > As long as this https://crates.io/search?q=gst returns nothing and > > this > > https://crates.io/search?q=glib returns bunch of immature projects, > > it's > > just not an option. I am not going to spend half of my budget & time > > for > > rewriting something that works perfectly in Vala just becuse some > > language > > appears to be promising. > > > > Marcin > > > > > > 2016-06-15 3:57 GMT+02:00 Daogang <daogangt...@126.com>: > > > > > don't care that, I just mention it. > > > > > > Rust is the most promising language in the coming 15 years, > > > https://www.rust-lang.org/. > > > > > > It is a system language, as c, c++, vala, but has more and more > > > powerful > > > theory basis than vala. It can reduce runtime bug significantly for > > > its > > > safty feature. > > > > > > If let me choose, I want to recommand all elementary work > > > transfering to > > > rust. :) just keep your own direction. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gang Tang, Nothing is impossible. > > > +86 152 8102 0829 > > > > > > Mamiwenwen.com, Chengdu, China. > > > > > > > > > > > > 在2016年06月14 23时09分, "Al Thomas"<astav...@yahoo.co.uk>写道: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Daogang <daogangt...@126.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 13:58 > > > Subject: Re: [Vala] Seeking for Vala programmer > > > > > > > > > can consider rust lang? i think it is promissing. > > > > > > > > > An advantage of Vala is it has first class bindings to a large > > > number of > > > excellent projects, e.g. GStreamer, Gtk+. > > > A quick search on Rust found this tutorial dated December 2015, but > > > now > > > advises "This guide is no longer compatible with the current > > > codebase and > > > thus will be rewritten in the future.": > > > > > > https://mmstickman.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/phoronix-reader-rust-pr > > > ogramming-tutorial/ > > > > > > > > > https://www.gitbook.com/book/mmstick/rust-programming-phoronix-read > > > er-how-to/details > > > > > > So maybe there is some way for Rust to go on the bindings front. I > > > didn't > > > look too much at other differences. > > > > > > Can you elaborate on your experiences with Rust and Vala that makes > > > you > > > recommend Rust? > > > > > > > > > Personally, I find it encouraging the Marcin Lewandowski and > > > RadioKit are > > > looking to employ a Vala programmer. Marcin has filed a number of > > > useful > > > bug reports after I think investing some considerable time in using > > > Vala. I > > > hope the Vala community continues to grow and address some of those > > > issues. > > > > > > > > > Al > > > _______________________________________________ > > > vala-list mailing list > > > vala-list@gnome.org > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vala-list mailing list > > vala-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > -- > Guillaume Poirier-Morency <guillaumepoiriermore...@gmail.com> > > Étudiant au baccalauréat en Informatique à l'Université de Montréal > Développeur d'application web > > Mon blog: https://arteymix.github.io/ > Mon projet de coopérative: https://pittoresque.github.io/ > Clé PGP: B1AD6EA5 > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
